Prof. P.V. Vara Prasad
P.V. Vara Prasad is a University Distinguished Professor, R.O. Kruse Endowed Professor and Director of the Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab at Kansas State University. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (India) and Ph.D. from the University of Reading (U.K.). His research focuses on understanding responses of crops to changing environments; and developing best management strategies to improve and protect yields. He has active programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America and Caribbean. He has published over 360 journal articles and book chapters; trained 160 research scholars from 25 countries. His research has been cited over 21,500 times with an h-index of 76 and i-10 index of 227. He obtained more than US $150 million in grant funding and donations. He is an elected fellow of American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member on the International Commission on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and the Past President of the Crop Science Society of America.
P.V. Vara Prasad is a University Distinguished Professor, R.O. Kruse Endowed Professor and Director of the Feed the Future Sustainable Intensification Innovation Lab at Kansas State University. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (India) and Ph.D. from the University of Reading (U.K.). His research focuses on understanding responses of crops to changing environments; and developing best management strategies to improve and protect yields. He has active programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America and Caribbean. He has published over 360 journal articles and book chapters; trained 160 research scholars from 25 countries. His research has been cited over 21,500 times with an h-index of 76 and i-10 index of 227. He obtained more than US $150 million in grant funding and donations. He is an elected fellow of American Society of Agronomy; Crop Science Society of America; and American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member on the International Commission on Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and the Past President of the Crop Science Society of America.